News BMG and Warner competing for Pink Floyd catalog, which could fetch more than Bruce Springsteen’s $500m+ deal (report) FT reports that bids are flying in above the half-billion-dollar mark
Analysis News At $4.9bn, Peloton’s market cap value has plunged to just 10% of what it was in January 2021 Stat Of The Week: Spotify isn't the only music-related tech giant with a rapidly sinking share price
Analysis Blog ‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’ The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK's Music Managers Forum
News The Chainsmokers are giving away a share of their streaming royalties for free, via Justin Blau’s NFT platform Royal Royal says The Chainsmokers will be making 5,000 NFTs that represent a collective 1% of their new album’s streaming royalties
News Brandon Silverstein’s S10 Films strikes partership with Simon Fuller S10 Films has several scripted and un-scripted projects in active development across TV, documentary, and audio mediums
News Sonos is officially launching its own voice assistant The Sonos 'Voice Control' assistant will be available for US customers on June 1
News As rap continues to rule the charts in Germany, Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth freestyle series into the market Fire In The Booth Germany will be presented by DJ Maxxx
News Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Egyptian Record label 100COPIES Reservoir and PopArabia have also signed Egyptian rapper and singer Mohamed Ramadan to a worldwide publishing deal
Analysis News Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sources Warner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.
Analysis Interviews The Fed just raised interest rates. So did the Bank Of England. A leading music asset valuer explains why it isn’t worrying. Citrin Cooperman's Nari Matsuura explains, in detail, why her firm's Discount Rate for music assets isn't changing
News $1.3bn-valued DistroKid moves into video distribution with new DistroVid launch The DistroVid platform will allow artists to upload an unlimited amount of music videos and keep 100% of their earnings, the company says
Analysis Blog ‘This agreement guarantees a raise for CDs, vinyl and downloads, but we know that songwriters need much more to succeed – they need fairness.’ This op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)
News Record labels and publishers ink major settlement, moving from 9.1 cents to 12 cents per track for US mechanical royalties on physical sales Agreement reached to settle rate negotiation in the US
News Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company? Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...
News Quincy Jones’ OneOf teams with Warner-backed virtual concerts firm Wave to launch NFT for metaverse artist Teflon Sega 'Metaverse-born musical artist and producer' Teflon Sega has over 356,000 monthly Spotify listeners